Trans acceptance in wider media is always a good thing, but when it's a goofy slapstick cartoon for Nickelodeon audiences, it's even more impressive and wonderful to see.
I've never properly watched Rocko's Modern Life, they didn't show it much on UK Nickelodeon when I was a kid, so I didn't get much of a chance. My largest exposure to it was YouTube list videos about "10 Hidden Adult Jokes In Kids Shows", that sought of thing.
I could tell through these snippets of scenes that Rocko was a fairly clever clever show, but I never imagined it to be this impactful with a very serious matter in its hands.
The special does have its problems in the form of some of the commentary on our modern life being rather surface- level and uninformed, but I had to keep reminding myself that even though this is a Netflix special, it is still for that Nickelodeon audience that watched 20 years ago, and the current ones, too.
This is probably why the trans issue towards the last 2/3 of the runtime caught me off guard, as the trio of main characters accept Rachel for who she is now without any demeaning jokes or scoffing at the thought (Heffer does crack a joke about her name a little while after, but is scolded and doesn't again).
All in all I enjoyed this special much more than I anticipated and felt satisfied with the legacy of Rocko and where it's gone. I can only hope Enter the Florpus can do the same.
I've never properly watched Rocko's Modern Life, they didn't show it much on UK Nickelodeon when I was a kid, so I didn't get much of a chance. My largest exposure to it was YouTube list videos about "10 Hidden Adult Jokes In Kids Shows", that sought of thing.
I could tell through these snippets of scenes that Rocko was a fairly clever clever show, but I never imagined it to be this impactful with a very serious matter in its hands.
The special does have its problems in the form of some of the commentary on our modern life being rather surface- level and uninformed, but I had to keep reminding myself that even though this is a Netflix special, it is still for that Nickelodeon audience that watched 20 years ago, and the current ones, too.
This is probably why the trans issue towards the last 2/3 of the runtime caught me off guard, as the trio of main characters accept Rachel for who she is now without any demeaning jokes or scoffing at the thought (Heffer does crack a joke about her name a little while after, but is scolded and doesn't again).
All in all I enjoyed this special much more than I anticipated and felt satisfied with the legacy of Rocko and where it's gone. I can only hope Enter the Florpus can do the same.